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From National Geographic: A video of the New Caledonian Crow making a hook out of wire (August 8, 2002) Tool use in crows is a combination of natural ability and schooling by other crows – LiveScience.com (October 31, 2006) BBC news website item about the New Caledonian Crow, includes video footage of tool use (August 16, 2007)
The genus contains 50 species: [1] Corvus splendens Vieillot, 1817 – house crow or Indian house crow (Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Middle East, eastern Africa); Corvus moneduloides Lesson, RP, 1831 – New Caledonian crow (New Caledonia)
The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcrackers and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes, and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence. New Caledonian crow, Corvus moneduloides (E)
New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) are notable for their highly developed tool fabrication. They make angling tools of twigs and leaves trimmed into hooks, and then subsequently use the hooks to pull insect larvae from tree holes. Tools are engineered according to task, and apparently, also to learned preferences.
However, the use of a rock manipulated using the beak to crack an ostrich egg would qualify the Egyptian vulture as a tool user. Many other species, including parrots, corvids, and a range of passerines, have been noted as tool users. [1] New Caledonian crows have been observed in the wild using sticks with their beaks to extract insects from ...
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